Hello, I am new to Django, and trying to figure out how best to use it. My immediate problem is that I'm trying to figure out how to use raw SQL in combination with the model layer. Here are the issues I've run into:
1) How do I turn a row into a model object? There is some discussion of writing raw SQL in the docs (http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ topics/db/sql/#topics-db-sql), but I didn't see anything on turning the row into a model object. Do I need to create a dict from the row values and then call the model object's __init__ method? Or is there something simpler that I'm missing? 2) If the model object as a ForeignKey, then the construction of a model object is trickier. From playing around, it appears to be the case that the dict must have an object of the referenced type, not the value of the foreign key. This could make manual construction of model objects difficult. I must be doing something wrong -- forcing creation of the related objects seems wasteful, especially as it could propagate, (if the referenced object has its own FKs). Jack Orenstein --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
